Successful people tend to be relentlessly resourceful. They do not give up when the first door closes.
The best salespeople are not born. They are built by rejection.
Getting fired from Facebook was the best thing that ever happened to me. I just did not know it for a few years.
I failed 13 businesses before 21. Every failure taught me what not to do. That education was priceless.
Every successful person I know has been through failure. The difference is they got up faster than they fell.
I was dead for six minutes, told I'd never walk again, went broke, and got cancer. I'm still here. Your excuses are invalid.
We went from a company that was going to IPO to a company that was fighting for its life in the span of about four to six weeks.
We almost died in 2015. I laid off everyone and moved to Kyoto with one engineer. It was the best decision I ever made.
In crypto, the people who survive the winters are the ones who build the next bull run.
The BNPL winter killed our weaker competitors. It made us stronger because we had to get profitable. We did.
I was fired on a Friday and rehired on a Tuesday. It was the most bizarre week of my life.
I got fired from my own company. Most people would have given up. I started a better company six months later. Failure is information, not identity.
In a recession, every company needs to cut software costs. In a boom, every company is buying more software and overpaying. We win in both markets.
The market went from "you're insane for betting on digital collectibles" to "you're a genius" to "you're insane" again in about 18 months. Building in crypto is not for people who need external validation.
Our valuation went from $10 billion to $2.7 billion. That's painful. But we're still the third-largest hotel chain in the world by room count. The company is real. The valuation was the part that wasn't.